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Saphenous Nerve Conduction in Man1 J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.32.6.530 on 1 December 1969. Downloaded from J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat., 1969, 32, 530-540 Saphenous nerve conduction in man1 CUMHUR ERTEKIN2 From the Laboratory ofNeurophysiology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden At present, the most reliable methods for inves- four females) were 41 to 63 years (mean age 51). In tigating sensory nerve conduction for diagnostic control subjects, 53 saphenous nerves were studied and, purposes involve the median and the ulnar nerves in addition, eight subjects underwent measurement of the (Gilliatt and Sears, 1958; Buchthal and Rosenfalck, distal sensory conduction in the posterior tibial nerve. Studies of the distal sensory conduction of the median 1966). In the lower extremities, pure sensory con- nerve were also made. duction is, however, not easily studied. It has Studies of the sensory conduction in the saphenous recently been shown that sensory potentials recorded nerve were carried out in 65 patients, 36 of whom (31 in the posterior tibial and the fibular nerves at the males, five females) showed clinical signs of polyneuro- ankle have a considerably lower amplitude than the pathy and/or associated slow motor or sensory conduc- sensory action potentials in the nerves of the arms tion in some other nerves. The mean age of these cases and that an averaging computer is necessary to was 51, ranging from 20 to 76 years. Twenty-nine of the obtain accurate recordings (Mavor and Atcheson, patients (15 males, 14 females) did not show any clinical guest. Protected by copyright. 1966; Buchthal and Rosenfalck, 1966). signs and had no subjective symptoms of polyneuro- pathy. They suffered from diabetes mellitus, chronic The difficulties mentioned in the study of the alcoholism, renal insufficiency, or other diseases which sensory conduction in the lower extremities are of may affect peripheral nerves. These 29 cases have for the great clinical disadvantage, since many polyneuro- sake of brevity been called the 'subclinical' group. The pathies first give rise to sensory symptoms in the legs. mean age of these cases was 36 (19 to 64) years. It is, therefore, often important to be able to measure Sensory action potentials were recorded both from the early changes of the sensory nerve in the legs, posterior tibial and the median nerves. The digital nerves especially in cases with only subjective sensory of the first toe and the first finger were stimulated and complaints and in which the EMG and the motor the action potentials were recorded at the ankle and the conduction in the is normal. wrist respectively by the method described by Buchthal legs and Rosenfalck (1966). In the present study, a technique is described to The saphenous nerve is a terminal sensory branch ofthe measure the sensory conduction in a nerve not femoral nerve and it innervates the medial surface of the studied previously in the lower extremity, the leg from the knee to the foot (Fig. 1). Above the knee, it saphenous nerve. This nerve proved to be easy to passes deeply within the subsartorial canal inthethighand locate and it always gave sensory action potentials arrives at the level of the inguinal ligament where it joins in normal subjects on adequate stimulation. The other motor and sensory branches of the femoral nerve. conduction velocity values obtained from the In the canal as well as at the ligament, it lies close to the saphenous nerve will be compared with those found motor branches to the vastus medialis muscle, Just under in other nerves in normal subjects and in patients the inguinal ligament it is situated laterally to the point of the maximal pulsation of the femoral artery. It is easy with polyneuropathy. to reach it by a needle electrode at this site. http://jnnp.bmj.com/ The following standard procedure was used for the MATERIALS AND METHODS studies of sensory conduction in the saphenous nerve. Stimulation of the sensory nerves was performed with Fifty normal subjects served as controls for the saphenous surface electrodes of the same type as those used for studies. The majority of these were healthy volunteers, stimulating the distal nerves (DISA 13K65). The two while others suffered from traumatic nerve injuries of the electrodes were mounted in parallel, perpendicular to the upper extremities only, but showed normal sensory and long axis of the leg just below the lower edge of the motor findings in the lower extremities. These controls on the medial surface of the were patella leg. They placed on October 2, 2021 by were divided into two groups according to age. at a distance of 2 to 3 cm and held in place firmly by Thirty-one subjects (23 males, eight females) were surgical tape. Before application of the electrodes the between 17 to 38 years (mean age 26) and 19 (15 males, skin was cleaned with ether and gently rubbed with 'Presented at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Swedish sandpaper. Medical Association in Stockholm on 1 December 1967. Electrical stimulation at this site has the advantage of 'On leave of absence from the Department of Clinical Neurology, not activating muscle tissue around the electrodes and Aegean University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey. hence artefacts from muscles are avoided. The proximal 530 J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.32.6.530 on 1 December 1969. Downloaded from Saphenous nerve conduction in man 531 FIG. 1. Diagram ofthe discarded. At the end of the study the motor fibres were saphenous nerve and the stimulated supramaximally-that is, with a stimulus 10L3 position ofthe electrodes intensity of five to 10 times the motor threshold-and the /A .. ~Le for stimulation and re- response in vastus medialis muscle was recorded. cording. The dotted line When the recording electrode at the inguinal ligament UC.- I S;_shows the course of the had been placed as close to the saphenous nerve as saphenous nerve and possible, the electrodes were connected to the input the solid line indicates transformer (ratio 1:30, 10 to 500 c.p.s.) of the the motor fibres of the electromyograph (DISA 14A30). The differential am- femoral nerve to the plifier of the electromyograph has an input impedance vastus medialis muscle. of 200 MD shunted with 15 pF, a lower frequency limit ST1 andST2:stimulation (3 dB down) at 2 or 20 c.p.s. (through high pass filter) electrodes for the and an upper frequency limit (3 dB down at 10,000 \ g saphenous nerve. REC: or 2,000 c.p.s. through a low pass filter) with a slope \ 1l site of the recording oft dB/octave. The noise level of the amplifier with short electrodes at the circuited input was less than 1-5 uV RMS, 7 ,uV peak to ST1 inguinal ligament. peak. The saphenous nerve was stimulated on the medial aspect of the knee and in some instances just above the medial malleolus with rectangular pulses 0-2 msec in duration and with an intensity of 40 to 60 mA (DISA Ministim 14 E 10). The stimulus current was monitored ST1 through a 1OQ resistance on one of the channels of the electromyograph. The sweep speed used for recording the sensory action guest. Protected by copyright. potential on the film was 0-5 msec/mm or, in some patients with polyneuropathy or in those stimulated at the medial malleolus, 1-0 msec/mm. Twenty superim- posed sweeps, as well as single sweeps, were photographed. The sensory conduction time was measured from the stimulating electrode was connected to the cathode of the beginning of the stimulus artefact to the peak of the first stimulator. positive deflection. The distance between the inguinal A concentric needle electrode (DISA 13K03) was ligament and the knee was then divided by the conduction placed in the vastus medialis muscle. time and the conduction velocity was expressed in in/sec. The electrodes used for recording sensory action In 10 normal subjects conduction time was obtained by potential were stainless steel needles, Teflon coated stimulating both at the knee and the medial malleolus. except at the tip. The stigmatic electrode had a bare tip The amplitude of the sensory potential was measured of 3 mm and the indifferent a bare tip of 5 mm. In order to from peak to peak. The motor nerve conduction time to reduce the impedance of the electrodes, an alternating the vastus medialis muscle was measured from the current was passed through each electrode for about 30 beginning of the stimulus artefact to the onset of the to 40 seconds, with the electrode placed in hot saline evoked muscle response, the value peak to peak of the (900). This procedure produced electrodes with an first high positive-negative deflection was considered as impedance of 1 to 2 KQ at 10 to 5,000 c.p.s, measured its amplitude. In every study the deep temperature at the with a peak to peak voltage of 50 pV. inguinal ligament was measured by an electrothermometer The recording electrodes were then connected to the (Ellab-Copenhagen) and found to be 360 to 37°C in both output of the stimulator (DISA Ministim 14 E 30). The the normal subjects and the patients. stigmatic electrode was inserted at the inguinal ligament http://jnnp.bmj.com/ about 0 5 to 1-5 cm lateral to the maximum pulsation of RESULTS the femoral artery, while the indifferent was inserted 1-5 to 3 0 cm more laterally. A long circular ground NORMAL SUBJECTS In Table I the results from the electrode was placed between the electrodes at the inguinal studies of sensory conduction in the saphenous ligament and in the vastus medialis muscle.
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